bind update keeps messing up write-rights

[Gijs]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Gijs writes:
>
>> Hey List,
>>
>> Not sure why this is happening so perhaps someone can explain this to 
>> me.
>> Whenever I update bind it messes up/resets access rights on my zone 
>> files. Now normally this wouldn't be a bad thing, but because I have 
>> dynamic updates on, for which named creates journalizing files, I end 
>> up having non-writeable journalizing files. So after every update I 
>> end up having to manually change the access rights on my jnl files.
>>
>> Is anyone else having the same problem and/or is it supposed to be 
>> like this?
>
> You must have bind configured to run in chroot.
>
> rpm's %post script runs /usr/sbin/bind-chroot-admin where, if you have 
> chroot configured, it runs this lovely bit of code:
>
>    chown -h root:named /var/named/* >/dev/null 2>&1;
>    chown -h root:named ${BIND_CHROOT_PREFIX}/var/named/* >/dev/null 2>&1;
>    chown -h root:named /etc/{named,rndc}.* >/dev/null 2>&1;
>    chown -h root:named ${BIND_CHROOT_PREFIX}/etc/{named,rndc}.* 
> >/dev/null 2>&1;
>    chown -h named:named /var/log/named.log >/dev/null 2>&1;
>    chown -h named:named ${BIND_CHROOT_PREFIX}/var/log/named.log 
> >/dev/null 2>&1;
>    chmod 750 ${pfx}/var/named  >/dev/null 2>&1;
>    chmod 640 ${pfx}/var/named/* >/dev/null 2>&1;
>    chmod 750 ${pfx}/var/named/*/. >/dev/null 2>&1;
>    chmod 660 ${pfx}/var/log/named.log >/dev/null 2>&1;
>    chown -h named:named 
> /var/named/{data{,/*},slaves{,/*},dynamic{,/*}} >/dev/null 2>&1;
>    chown -h named:named 
> ${BIND_CHROOT_PREFIX}/var/named/{data{,/*},slaves{,/*},dynamic{,/*}} 
> >/dev/null 2>&1;
>    chmod 770 ${pfx}/var/named/{data,slaves,dynamic} >/dev/null 2>&1;
>    chmod 660 ${pfx}/var/named/{data/*,slaves/*,dynamic/*} >/dev/null 
> 2>&1;
>    chmod 770 ${pfx}/var/named/{data/*/.,slaves/*/.,dynamic/*/.} 
> >/dev/null 2>&1;
>
> Lovely.
>
Heh, that's indeed lovely. And yea, I've got named configured to run in 
chroot as it is the default nowadays (at least on Fedora).